Utterly fed up (covid)

[ExpectingLady93]

I'm totally fed up. I don't doubt for a second everyone else is. It's now been a couple of years, we've had our jabs... just doesn't seem to be putting us back to normal like we were 'promised'?

It still doesn't seem to change the fact that there is now a new variant and they are not 'ruling' out another lockdown, and right before Christmas also. I worry for my friends and family (and everyone else). My parents are getting on a bit and I think it would break my mums heart if they put us into lockdown again before Christmas like last year.....

How is everyone else feeling?

@HereticFanjo

I'm with you OP. Today so many people around me seem to be testing positive including close contacts. Juggling work and homeschooling is looming, it's dark, I never want to cook another fucking meal again for my bastard ingrate family. Oh and in case you can't tell I'm peri menopausal and descending into my monthly pmt hell.

So, covid can fuck the fuck off along with every other irritating fucker in my life.

That was quite therapeutic 😌

so with you there

I think most elderly people want to make the most of their lives now and spend time with grandchildren.

Do they during a rise/potential rise in cases? Or do they feel obliged to. Even pressured

I can't forget the story of the lady dying in ICU in January, who told the staff that she had been pressured into seeing her family at Christmas, even though she had told them she'd rather they didn't visit, they just turned up and she then caught covid from them.

The (anonymous) story was part of an ICU junior doctor's diary in the papers. During the peak of the January wave.

Last Christmas? Of course not because nobody was vaccinated and most of the country was in tier4. So yes there were lots of sad stories of mixing leading to death in the vulnerable/elderly.

Once they’ve had two jabs then a booster most of the elderly want to mix and see family and also travel. There’s probably a few who still don’t feel comfortable but I don’t know when they will. That’s quite sad really.

This Christmas is not comparable to last Christmas at all?

Totally fed up with Covid as well. Been double jabbed and now I've had enough and am not having any more jabs. Too many people telling us what to do. Reckon I've had Covid, as well and really don't want any more chemicals. Big Farma has a lot of vaccines they need to sell, why are they trying to scare us over something that doctors in South Africa are saying is a very very mild COVID variant.

@Nimchinge

Well they weren't. And now all that's being asked is you wear masks indoors. I mean...come on. It's what the rest of the world has been doing for a year 🤷‍♀️

yes i hardly noticed i had to home school my kids whilst trying to work.

I totally understand those who say they’ll see loved ones whatever, I feel the same but can’t due to them living abroad. I just want to get on a plane and visit my brother and his family. He moved to Canada on the promise they’ll visit every year and always have until now. We’ve been there too but my nephew was 6 last time I saw him and will be at least 8 when I next see him if they can get here in the summer. The distance feels like a different planet.

@Delatron and for me this is it, this Christmas and last Christmas are not comparable because we have done the lockdown, sacrificed actual Christmas last year, endured what was mentally for many people a dreadful first few months of the year and the reason people are fed up is be arsed we are now looking at a situation of facing that again despite doing everything we were told to do and more to get our lives back.

I don't want to wear a mask but as it is mandated I will do (even though I think it is an absolute waste of time) but another lockdown I can't and (and I hope many others as well) won't support.

And further up the thread someone said no one is enjoying it, sadly I think some people are.

Be arsed - because ffs

@Wizzbangfizz yes I think many feel that way about Christmas. I honestly don’t think there’ll be any restrictions in mixing with family and friends this year. It’s so far from any narrative coming from the government. They want boosters in arms and that’s it.

People on here on the other hand. Yep many would relish another lockdown.

I'm so, so sick of hearing "it's just a piece of cloth" and seeing people say they'd be happy to wear masks forever. I'm autistic and masks make me feel suffocated and nauseated to the point I have sometimes vomited after having to wear one. The amount of judgement you get in public places from the virtue crowd has made me wary of trying to claim an exemption. I was suicidal last year because of lockdown. I can't do it all for much longer and I am coming to actively despise the people who won't shut up about how wearing a mask forever is so easy.

I agree @pucelleauxblanchesmains.

It’s crushing me just now

Really fucking fucked off. So glad I lived when I lived but boy I feel bad for my kids.

"Not once seen any of the "let's just get on with it now"-crew admit that they simply don't give a fuck about people dying." I have my own survival instinct to contend with. If this continues I honestly think I would end up sectioned and I do not say that lightly.

Similarly - and I am sorry for posting so many messages in a row - I am amused to see both "it'll be over eventually, get on with it and stop being selfish" AND "it'll never end and if you don't accept that you're selfish" on here. Please at least co-ordinate!

I'm with you OP. I've resigned from my job this evening (Im (was) in retail) and I just cant bear the thought of doing 8 hour + shifts suffocating in a mask. It stressed me out so much last time and I feel I just cant go back to doing it. I'm claustraphobic at the best of times (can't even bear to wear a scarf or high necked jumper) so wearing a mask is unbearable to me. I can leave a store when shopping whenever I like so manage to wear it for short periods until it gets too much for me (about 10 mins) or shop on line. It's all too much now, triple jabbed but looking like we're going backwards again.....

@Annamaywong25 Hope you find another job soon, I wouldn't be able to do it either.

Similarly - and I am sorry for posting so many messages in a row - I am amused to see both "it'll be over eventually, get on with it and stop being selfish" AND "it'll never end and if you don't accept that you're selfish" on here. Please at least co-ordinate!

Selfish = 'people who won't think and do what I want them to'

Selfish = 'people who won't think and do what I want them to'

No, Selfish = people who don't give a shit about other people dying because they're too precious to wear a bit of cloth over their face in certain circumstances.

It's not really rocket surgery...

@HannibalHayeski

Wearing a bit of cloth over your face doesn’t stop anyone from dying.

What is rocket surgery?

@HannibalHayeski

Selfish = 'people who won't think and do what I want them to'

No, Selfish = people who don't give a shit about other people dying because they're too precious to wear a bit of cloth over their face in certain circumstances.

It's not really rocket surgery...

It's not wrong to want to breathe unhindered through one's nostrils, it's what they're there for and until 18 months ago what we always did. It's not like we haven't worn them the year that it was required, in MOST settings.

My question is, do some people expect masks to be worn forever? Since there will always be covid, and there will always be vulnerable people.

The masks thing is particularly stupid. We e had them all along in Scotland and no difference in rates, in fact perhaps slightly worse. So the screeching for masks is just stupid.

@spitneybrears presumably you aren't vulnerable then ? Or any of your loved ones ?

Wearily fed up probably describes me

rocket surgery is brilliant

@DerTrotzkopf I have vulnerable loved ones. What difference does that make to my question?